Scott Sharkey wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a team of web developers working off a common base of code which
> is managed in a subversion repository (cake-php app). We do have a
> development server, with each developer having an account there, but
> some of the developers (for various reasons) prefer to work on their
> local environments (both Windows and linux). The problem that I'm
> having is that the application uses several configuration files, and
> .htaccess files. Sometimes, these configs/.htaccess files require local
> modifications to work in the local developer environment.
>
> If I mark the files to be ignored, then a new checkout of the
> application is non-functional, since there are no configs, and more
> importantly, no .htaccess files. Recreating them is non-trivial.
> But if I don't ignore them, then any local developer doing a checkin
> overwrites the "common" case files with their local modifications, which
> are NOT necessary in a "production" rollout.
>
> What I've done so far is to rename each of the config files from, say
> core.php to core.php.default, and the .htaccess to .htaccess.default.
> Then, the user is required to copy the default files to the actual
> files in order to make a working application. I then set SVN to ignore
> the non-default files. I suppose I could write an installation script
> to rename the .default files if it became necessary.
>
> Does this make sense, and is there a better way to address the problem?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> -Scott
Store `config.tmpl` in the repo and have your developers copy that file
to `config` on their local machines. Have the checkout system on the
dev server also do the same.
Subversion does not have an option to have a file in the repository but
also ignore all changes to it. The option is not planned to be added
either.
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Received on 2008-04-22 08:47:36 CEST